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COINAHOLIC- I'm not quite sure what that is a picture of. Looks interesting though haha. I believe it is a device,(used in conjunction with a stick) to barter with the seas, for their fish!
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I used to spend hours wondering around his coin room in awe of the coins he had displayed  Coin room! Was this like a walk in vault. Sounds  swcoin.ecrater.com
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Actually Vermontensium it was a large walnut paneled den, with 2 wooden desks, a rather large safe, bookshelves, and several glass door cabinets. Kind of a typical man cave . The best part was that he had custom acrylic coin holders made that took up most of the walls. one was in the shape of Nevada that held a complete Carson City Morgan dollar set (mint state examples), several complete type sets (less gold), complete Lincoln Wheat cent, Buffalo nickel, Mercury dimes and those are just the few I remember. I have always wondered what he had in the safe as I don't ever remember seeing it open. When he past away in 1975 he did leave me quite a few nice coins, most of which I still have, but the rest was sold.  |
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CuprousCoin- That is kind of the sad truth of all great coin collections: they eventually are broken up. In many ways all great coin collections are part of a cycle of death and rebirth. In fact, a major tenet of many belief systems is that something is destroyed in order for other things to be able to be created. This is so true in the world of numismatics with regard to collections as well as the actual materials which coins are made from: many Morgan dollars are made of silver from melted pieces of 8, and as I write this lots of junk silver all over the world is being melted in order for modern bullion coins to come into existence. Edited by Archraz
01/30/2009 01:45 am
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coinaholic: WHAT, no mint mark noted? And how about a date? Was that ever sent to a TPGS? Howaboutsomedetails. |
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1869 Shield nickel, passed down from my great grandmother. Someone gave it to her when she was a little girl,and she never spent it. I'm glad she didn't,it's sentimental to us now. sn31. |
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In many ways all great coin collections are part of a cycle of death and rebirth. In fact, a major tenet of many belief systems is that something is destroyed in order for other things to be able to be created... Very true. With that kind of outlook, things do not seem so bad! |
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Pillar of the Community
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An 1889-S Morgan that my Grandma let me pick out from her little stash of silver dollars. I still have and would never part with it.
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Pillar of the Community
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The_Duke- Whatever happened to the rest of her stash?
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About 10 years ago,I worked with a guy that was a collector.He brought coins in to work to show me once in a while.That piqued my interest.I had a few old coins myself,but never really collected any,just put them in a box and looked at them once in a while.Meanwhile,my youngest son turned 18 and I decided to cash in an old life insurance policy for my ex-wife...LOL  I then had a few thousand bucks,and decided to invest in Type II S mint Double Eagles.So that was the first coin I bought,an 1870 AU-58 NGC.I ended up getting 5 different dates,and ran out of money.  But caught the bug BAD.....Took a few years off,and then decided to complete my Peace dollar set, and found this place.I have learned alot in the few months I have been lurking and posting here.Thanks,to all of you. Been looking,need money...Brewzz |
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"The_Duke- Whatever happened to the rest of her stash?" Well, she sold off most of it. She had silver dollars and a couple of gold pieces. She also gave me a Wheat cent book 1941 + that someone had given her. I started most of my collection at my family's hardware store in the 60s and 70s. I would go through all the tills "searching" for keepers. |
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I had two uncles that collected and would give me a coin now and then when they came thru town. From there a sister that worked at dairy queen and would keep any mercury head dimes,buffalo nickels and Indian Head penny's she would get in change. Started searching rolls of penny's and put together a book of penny's. Then 10 years ago started buying mint Set's for Christmas for the nieces and nephews and well, might as well get some for me to! Then really fell over the edge recently when decided to start filling the holes in the penny book and purchased a 1911s,1912s and 1914s penny at a coin show, my first real purchase and I think it's all down hill from here as I started buying Franklin half dollars to put together a book Yikes!! |
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My first coins were three gold German 20 Mark coins give to me when I was young by my Grandmother. She had them when she immigrated to the US from Poland at the turn of the 20th century. Wish I would have held onto them.
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echizento- out of curiosity, what happened to those three 20s?
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They got sold when I was 15 or 16 to buy what kids buy at that age. I didn't know any better back than.
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